{"id":2867,"date":"2023-04-13T10:25:51","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T15:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/?p=2867"},"modified":"2023-04-23T15:11:30","modified_gmt":"2023-04-23T20:11:30","slug":"join-us-for-our-annual-meeting-may-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/?p=2867","title":{"rendered":"Join Us for Our Annual Meeting May 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Friday, May 19, 6:00 PM<\/strong>: <strong>Annual Meeting at<\/strong> L\u2019Union Francaise, 4522 Prytania Street, NOLA.\u00a0 RSVP info soon.<\/p>\n<p>Our speaker will be poet <strong>Alison Pelegrin<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Pelegrin is the author of <em>Waterlines <\/em>(Louisiana State University Press, 2016); <em>Hurricane Party<\/em> (University of Akron Press, 2012); <em>Big Muddy River of Stars<\/em> (University of Akron Press, 2007), which received the 2006 Akron Poetry Prize; and <em>The Zydeco Tablets<\/em> (Word Press, 2002).<\/p>\n<p>About Pelegrin\u2019s poetry, <a href=\"https:\/\/poets.org\/node\/44528\">Martha Serpas<\/a> writes, \u201cAlison Pelegrin is one of the sharpest wits to come out of the Bayou State in a long time. She can conjure Louisiana\u2019s present-tense, unapologetic, tragicomic drama with authenticity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pelegrin is the recipient of a grant from the Louisiana Division of the Arts and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She teaches at Southeastern Louisiana University and lives in Covington, Louisiana.<\/p>\n<p>Born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, Alison received an MFA from the University of Arkansas.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2871\" src=\"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Alison-Pelegrin-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Alison-Pelegrin-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Alison-Pelegrin-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Alison-Pelegrin.jpg 318w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, May 19, 6:00 PM: Annual Meeting at L\u2019Union Francaise, 4522 Prytania Street, NOLA.\u00a0 RSVP info soon. Our speaker will be poet Alison Pelegrin. Pelegrin is the author of Waterlines (Louisiana State University Press, 2016); Hurricane Party (University of Akron Press, 2012); Big Muddy River of Stars (University of Akron Press, 2007), which received the &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/?p=2867\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","post","publish","author-editor","post-2867","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2867"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2876,"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867\/revisions\/2876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}